Automated Flash Testing Using C #

Question

I am trying to write some software to automatically test the flash memory contained in web pages.

In particular, I’m looking for help with “connecting” to the web page that the flash is running on, and accessing the controls and events that it uses so that I can simulate button clicks and then listen to the answers it produces.

Since this can be any flash movie, I should be able to access the controls so that I can try to make an educated guess about which ones I need to simulate a click.

I need it to be free or possibly open source, with examples ideally in .net technology.

Can anyone offer help or examples please?

Many thanks

Answer 1

There is a Ruby library called FlashWatir . Not quite what you were looking for, but close.

Answer 2

First, Flash pages can be manipulated using JavaScript. For help on this, see: http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_06.html

You can write something in C # or use Selenium (open source) to test all this with some scripts. Selenium Remote Control supports DotNet.

Selenium Remote Control http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/

Selenium Flash: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SRC/Testing+Flash+with+Selenium+RC

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